Chef Jamie, 47, and Jools, 48, wed in 2000 and together they share five children.
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They had their eldest child, Poppy, when they were 27 – and now she has just turned 21.
Proud mum Jools took to her Instagram page to share a selection of snaps showing her daughter growing up.
These included family beach days, snuggles with her siblings in bed and throwback images to her days at school.
More modern images see Poppy posing in a garden and at a table outside before she was seen surrounded by a pile of balloons on her special day.
She wore a cardboard hat saying “Happy Birthday Pop” and posed in front of a Happy Birthday banner.
In Jools’ lengthy celebratory caption, she wrote: “To my darling Pops our little legend is now 21. I have never felt so unbelievably proud.
“In a large family full of chaos and noise you are calm, relaxed, sensitive and deeply thoughtful. You are a million wonderful things polite, well mannered, fiercely loyal and funny.
“Your writing brings me to tears as your empathy runs so deep.
“Pops you are one of a kind and you belong to us we are so lucky now you are a young lady with your life ahead fly free little birdie ( just don’t get a nose piercing or go on Love Island …otherwise you are free but remember I am still the boss ) xxx”
Poppy replied to the message with love hearts and the cheeky quip: “I might get the nose piercing.”
Jools was quick to retort: “Just you try.”
Meanwhile fans couldn’t believe how quickly Poppy has grown up.
One wrote: “Such beauty and grace happy birthday.”
Another added: “Love everything about this note! Happy Birthday to your gorgeous Girl.”
One then added: “Happiest of birthdays.”
Chef Gennaro Contaldo, who is Poppy’s dad Jamie’s mentor, then gushed: “Happy birthday 21. What a joy.”
Meanwhile, Jools is no stranger to touching Instagram posts.
After Poppy headed off to uni in 2020, Jools posted an emotional Instagram to her eldest daughter, saying that “every bone in my body misses you, that’s the only way to describe it.”
Jamie and Jools welcomed their youngest, son River, in 2016.
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